An exploration of the effects of family constraints on the commuting distance of its members:Taking Wuhan City as an example
Family constraints on individuals are an important topic in behavioral research in China and internationally,yet large-scale data and effect measurements are lacking.Based on existing studies,this research proposed a family constraint index on commuting distance(hereafter referred to as the constraint index)to quantitatively measure the effect of family constraints on individual members'commuting distance.Taking the Wuhan Metropolitan Development Area as an example,the June,2019 Unicorn cell phone signaling data were used to identify the family samples through the social network model,calculate the constraint index of the family on members of different ages,genders,and single-multiple workers,and quantitatively analyze the effect of family constraints on individual commuting behaviors.The study found that,first,the family has obvious constraints on the commuting distance of both male and female members,and the constraints of females are all positive,that is,the commuting distance is smaller for females with family constrains than those with no family constraints,whereas the constraint of males in multi-employee families are mostly negative,that is,the commuting distance for males with family constrains is greater than those with no family constraints.So women are generally more constrained by their families than men,and men in multi-worker households are the least constrained.The constraint index of females in single-worker households increases with age,and gradually converges with that of females in multi-worker households,while the constraint index of males in multi-worker households is stable at around 0.03.The proposed method based on big data expands the approaches for the study of commuting behavior with family members as the target,and provides references for various theoretical studies on family constraints,as well as the refined modeling of family influences on individual behaviors.
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